CHILTERN RAILWAYS

ROLLING STOCK

Class 121

This unit usually works Aylesbury - Princes Risborough Peak Hour shuttles during the Monday to Friday working week.

Class 121 No. 121020 at Aylesbury . (c) Peter Skuce.

Class 121 No. 121020 at Quainton Road. (c) Peter Skuce.

The refurbished interior of Class 121 No. 121020. (c) Peter Skuce.

Class 165/0

Chiltern Railways Class 165/0 Refurbishment

* Application of Chiltern Railways blue and white livery * Installation of EAO series 56 ‘easy to see, easy to press’ yellow circular LED Passenger Door Control buttons* Replacement of rubber floor with new ‘easy to clean’ smooth vinyl flooring* Repainted grab poles and new seat top hand grips* New dado side panels and repainted wall ends* Retrimmed seat moquette into new moquette trim* The seats in the outer ends of the vehicle were replaced by new high back seats to the 2+2 layout * Installation of wheelchair parking area in the DMSO vehicle, located by the toilet * The toilets were refurbished with new flooring, dado panels and ceiling * All windows and hoppers replaced by new full length and width windows due to new air cooling equipment * Installation of air cooling equipment * Replacement of original ceiling mounted Passenger Information Displays with LED Passenger Information Displays * All overhead luggage rack tips painted * Installation of improved interior saloon lighting diffusers * Replacement of ‘warm white’ fluorescent tubes with brighter ‘cool white’ fluorescent tubes * Repainted ceilings

There are twenty eight 2 carriage Class 165/0 Chiltern Turbo DMU trains (165001 - 165028) and eleven 3 carriage Class 165/0 Chiltern Turbo DMU trains (165029 - 165039). There is a total of thirty nine Class 165/0 Chiltern Turbo DMU trains. They were built by BREL York in 1990.All were refurbished at Ilford during the period 2002 - 2005 with unit No. 165013 being the experimental, trial prototype demonstrator - however this has since been altered to match the production refurbished units.

Each Class 165 DMU train is powered by one Perkins 2006TWH per each vehicle.

FRANCHISE HISTORY

Franchise Name

Parent company

From

Until

Chiltern Lines / Railways

British Railways Board

01 April 1994

20 July 1996

Chiltern Railways

Management

21 July 1996

02 March 2002

Chiltern Railways

Arriva UK Trains

03 March 2002

21 December 2021

LOGO GALLERY

1994 - 1995

1995 - 1997

1997 - present

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